Google Compute offline

[Red Ed]

I have an older computer which I would like to run google compute on as
it does little of anything else, but there is an issue. This computer
is not connected to the internet and cannot b for quit some time. I was
wondering if I would be able to download compute to moveable storage
and then install it on my older computer. Every few days I could copy
the findings to removable storage, upload them from my other computer
and download the next set of instructions back to the removable storage
and update the offline computer. My online computer is realy my dad's
and has enough background tasks and other problems that it would be
near suicide to run anything else on it even if performance was not
affected(read house hold politics dicate unhelping situations). I also
have apprehensions on putting my old computer on any form of network in
the first place.Any ideas are greatly welcomed.

[nwahsn...@yahoo.com]

:If you go to http://folding.stanford.edu/ which is the home page of
the program that google runs on your computer, and download it
directly, not through google, then here is what will happen: You will
download the program, and set it up quickly. Then It will download a
protein, or atom, or what ever project it is working on (Downloading
takes about 9 seconds) then your comptuer, depending on how fast it is,
will take approx 2-4 days to complete the experiment. Then it will save
it and stay idle untill you connect your computer to the internet. At
that point, it will upload the results to the server, and download a
new series to start working on (this takes less then 15 seconds). While
you are on your computer, you only use like 15% of the procceser power,
this program uses the other 85%, and if you start to use more at any
point, then it starts to use less. It just uses anything that your not,
while not limiting you at all. Also, it runs while you are not there,
so bassicly it is un-noticable. The site is http://folding.stanford.edu/

[Red Ed]

nwahsn...@yahoo.com wrote:

> :If you go to http://folding.stanford.edu/ which is the home page of
> the program that google runs on your computer, and download it
> directly, not through google, then here is what will happen: You will
> download the program, and set it up quickly. Then It will download a
> protein, or atom, or what ever project it is working on (Downloading
> takes about 9 seconds) then your comptuer, depending on how fast it is,
> will take approx 2-4 days to complete the experiment. Then it will save
> it and stay idle untill you connect your computer to the internet. At
> that point, it will upload the results to the server, and download a
> new series to start working on (this takes less then 15 seconds). While
> you are on your computer, you only use like 15% of the procceser power,
> this program uses the other 85%, and if you start to use more at any
> point, then it starts to use less. It just uses anything that your not,
> while not limiting you at all. Also, it runs while you are not there,
> so bassicly it is un-noticable. The site is http://folding.stanford.edu/

Thanks for that but the problem is more that an unknown reason causes
my older computer to travel through the web SLOW. Even though when I
have had it connected it connects at 28.8 Kbs it runs the internet, and
only the internet, slow-as if it connected in the single digits of Kbs.
Plus I lack a phone cord long enough for the computer to reach an
outlet as of right now.
I understand the way compute would work on the computer and I have
no problem with that. Thousands of old computers that do little better
than pure number crunching are just sitting in forgotten corners or
school computer labs that don't get updated... what wasted processing
power...I wish to use my computer but CAN NOT network it for both very
physical reasons and pratality reasons(your 15 seconds would probaly
end up like 15 minutes).I worry not about the age of the number
cruncher but the network ability.
So now I ask what do I do so that I don't have to join the network
with my older computer.?Again. I still wish to use compute on it
though.
Oh, and for anyone wondring just what my computer is it is a '97
cybermax with a 6x86MX Cyrix processor running currently 260(aprrox. +
or - a few)megahurtz. It has 14 gigs of storage,128 mb of SDRAM, and
runs a very toned down windows Xp(at least for a while longer).

[Dave (Geek) Smith]

Just a thought: try downloading the command line client and installing
it (NOT as a service) on the (USB?) drive. When the client starts
processing, stop it and move the drive to the other machine and start
it up. I'm not sure what will happen when it completes, but my guess
would be that it will try to send the results and fail. Then, move the
drive over to the Internet connected machine and start the client - it
should immediately upload the results and download the next work unit.
When it starts processing, stop it and move it. Rinse, repeat.

smith

[Red Ed]

Thank You. Now the only thing i would like is for you to explain this;

"try downloading the command line client and installing

it (NOT as a service) on the (USB?) drive.",for me so that my stupid
self can understand it just a little better.Thank you very much. It
would be a USB memory stick(256mb), though I'd like the actual compute
part on the old computers harddrive with just the "packets" on the
memory stick. Maybe a CD-RW would work?... Thank you very much agian.